Episode 121 — The Uber Mutation

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Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6 • 832 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Ben and James discuss Benchmark’s lawsuit against Uber and Cloudfare’s ban of Daily Stormer. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: The Uber Dilemma — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Apple and the Oak Tree — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Waymo’s Lawsuit Against Uber — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Does Uber Have a Strategy Problem? — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Crisis at Uber — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Cloudfare and Daily Stormer — Stratechery Daily Update Ben Thompson: Facebook Content Guidelines — Stratechery Daily Update Hosts Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery James Allworth, … Continue reading Episode 121 — The Uber Mutation

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0:00.0	Hi, James. Ben, how are you?
0:02.9	Annoid.
0:03.8	Oh, no. What's wrong?
0:05.3	It is my annual August annoyance, AAA.
0:09.0	Really? What's happened?
0:11.7	It's all the tweets we get saying, did you guys stop the podcast?
0:15.0	Is the podcast over?
0:16.3	I had this complaint every year. I also think I edit it out every year.
0:18.9	I think I'm going to leave it in this year because it keeps happening.
0:22.3	And so I know it's probably a little jerkish of me, but my response always is go back,
0:28.1	listen to the last minute of the last podcast where we said, as we do every year, we're going
0:32.7	to take a break over the summer.
0:34.2	I try to refrain from the snarky.
0:36.2	I guess you don't actually really listen to the
0:37.9	podcast, do you? Yeah, no, it's probably for the best. I mean, if they, I know, it's a good thing.
0:43.7	It's a, it's a good thing. It's a compliment. People miss us. Thank you. We missed you as well.
0:48.1	I know it's a good thing. Allow me, allow me my annoyance. And then I can feel guilty about it because I'm a guilt-ridden you know
0:54.2	guilt-ridden Midwestern. Well so I have a confession to make too. Do you know what I did over the
0:59.0	summer? Uh, well, before you can answer that. Hopefully more, hopefully more than you did last summer.
1:08.1	That's perhaps true. I bought a pair of AirPods and then I
1:11.6	downloaded her and then I started watching it. But I, every time I started watching it, something
1:17.2	stopped me. So I got close, but I still haven't quite watched it yet. How are the AirPods?
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